The opening plenary at the Museums and the Web 2008 was from Michael
Geist. He touched on many subjects, but one theme was copyright
licensing fees being charged by museums for access to digital
heritage.
He's posted a column with more details of his argument here:
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2837/135/ (hat-tip to j trant
for spotting this).
It's partly Canadian-centric, although he does praise the V&A for
dropping its charges for scholarly publications (although this doesn't
cover digital publications or web usage, I note).
At the conference there did seem to be a vague consensus that we
should be moving towards giving access to these images (the public
domain ones at the very least) away though - especially with the
general buzz around Flickr Commons.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this? And what are the barriers we
need to overcome?
Frankie Roberto
Science Museum website
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